The Gazette 1976

GAZETTE

AUGUST 1976

Mustfee-earnershave theworstof bothworlds?

Fee -earners in law practices today certainly seem to have the worst of both worlds. Clients demand an ever increasing speed of turn-around of instructions and this is putting more pressure on the fee-earner to put in longer hours. But that's not all. Many legal fees are still charged at static rates, so fee-income is being eroded by mounting overheads and staff salaries, while the fee-earner works longer and harder. The plain fact is that the legal profession is under pressure and it is the fee-earner who is bearing the brunt of that pressure. IBM can offer some practical help and comfort for the legal profession. Our range of memory typewriters is already bringing about dramatic changes in many legal offices. They have taken the drudgery out of routine pro- cedures and introduced methods of handling volumes of work faster, more efficiently and more economically. Using memory typewriters a first draft is produced, error free, in a fraction of the time required using conventional methods, and the fee-earner can make amendments comparing only the amendment itself. Retyping a final

draft or for example typing an engrossment is carried out automatically at speeds of up to 180 words per minute. Most of your routine correspondence can also be handled automatically releasing you for more productive work; while the secretarial drudgery is removed from the production of important documents. All this adds up to saving time —and that means money too — for you and your secretarial staff. You spend less time drafting and checking —they spend less time typing and correcting. Heretofore, handling paperwork in a legal office has become an ever increasing problem, hereinafter, IBM memory typewriters will make it easier for you. For further information, contact Mr. Tony Pickavance at IBM.

= = • • = IBM Ireland Limited, 2 Burlington = =—=" = = • = Road, Dublin 4. Tel: 785344. = = = = • = •= Irish Life Building, South Mall = = • = Cork. Tel: 23311.

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